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sgautier8th
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sgautier8th
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11/13/2019 5:45 am

Cool to see people still joining in and keeping this going!

After 9 mos. of playing, I played my first "gig", albeit in my house with 20 friends on a Friday evening. Me and two other guys play acoustic and sing together (we did 6 songs - 1 was really good, a few were good, one was mediocre and we butchered Brown Eyed Girl, which kills me because that was the easiest song we play!) Creedence, Neil Young, Van Morrison.

I played Wagon Wheel by myself and Mama Tried.

Most fun was trying out my chops on lead Blues with the Backing Tracks on Jam Station. I'm up through Chapter 2 in the Blues 2 course and just playing licks in rhythm all over the fretboard can keep people entertained for a good 30 minutes or more. I expected all the congrats, but you never know if they are sincere, but lots of people asked us to play more, so I'm gonna' take that as we did alright!

Anywho - stick with it everyone - practice works !!